chubby 復習
デリー大学の生物学研究者に関する記事です。Biju教授は両生類であるカエルを研究しております。特に新種を多く発見しており，インドでは200種類以上の未発見のカエルがいること報告した論文で話題となったようです。
記事の中で気になった単語は"chubby"です。『Wisdom英和辞典第三版』（三省堂）には「＜主に赤ん坊･子供が＞（健康的に）まるまるとした[太った], ぽっちゃりとした」などという意味がありました。Oxford Dictionariesには""Plump and roundedと定義されております。Oxford Dictionariesで語源を調べると「ウグイ類｟コイ科の淡水魚｠」を意味する（『Wisdom英和辞典第三版』（三省堂））"chub"に由来するようです。（Ume）
India's maverick 'frog man'
The phones haven't stopped ringing ever since Dr Biju and his team of scientists announced their latest discovery - an extraordinary tree frog thought to have died out more than a century ago. The usually quiet and cosy book-lined lab with a frosted glass door which says 'The Frog People' is unusually frantic.
But right now, the 52-year-old amphibian researcher - The Economist called Dr Biju the "closest thing Indian herpetology has to a celebrity" in 2011 - is talking about the purple frog, a brand new family of amphibians he discovered in 2003.
This bizarre, pig-nosed frog, found in Western Ghats, a mountain range and a biodiversity hotspot that runs along the western coast of India, uses shovel-like limbs to burrow the earth and live as deep as 20ft (6m) under the ground. National Geographic described it as a frog with a "chubby, purple body and pointed, pig like snout... and unlike any frog on earth".
